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Projects & Money
Launches, upgrades, funding, DeFi.
- Ondo Finance founder's mother seeks to oust the current CEO.
- Tokenised RWA deposits triple to $7.4 billion as broader DeFi contracts.
- Wintermute registers as a US broker-dealer to trade equities and crypto ETFs.
- MetaMask ships a self-custodial AI agent wallet.
- Circle names Wall Street heavyweights as Arc validators ahead of September launch.
- Binance sues RedotPay founders for $470 million, alleging deliberate user diversion.
- Yellow Card raises $40 million to wire African banks into stablecoin rails.
- Eliza Labs founder declares ai16z token dead after class-action settlement drains treasury.
- BlackRock puts $311 billion of European money market funds on Ethereum.
- BitGo migrates $7.4 billion of WBTC from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP.
- Polymarket eyes a $20 billion valuation as the prediction market field crowds.
- BNY adds staking to its digital asset custody platform.
- Mastercard closes BVNK acquisition, embedding stablecoin rails into enterprise payments.
- BlackRock's new tokenised MMFs land on Solana and Ethereum for stablecoin treasuries.
- Bitmine now holds 5.8 million ETH after adding another 10,399 tokens and staking $278 million.
- American Bitcoin tops 8,000 BTC reserve after a record Q2 mining output.
- DTCC runs live tokenised trades with Wall Street's major institutions.
- Trump Media clarifies its $165M BTC transfer to Crypto.com was not a sale.
- Binance delists six tokens on 17 August.
- South Korean stablecoin outflows top $367M in June alone, extending an 18-month trend.
- XRP Ledger re-enables features previously yanked over critical bugs.
- BNB Chain is pursuing legal action against an ex-employee who front-ran a tutorial wallet memecoin.
- Chainlink pushed TWAP oracle feeds to mainnet for developers.
- New York sues prediction market Kalshi for up to $36B over alleged illegal gambling.
- Uniswap launches 'Earn' with Morpho, bringing curated lending vaults to idle assets.
- Aave governance weighs closing six V3 deployments and offboarding 50 low-use reserves.
- BitMEX shuts down as its cultural legacy migrates to TradFi.
- Ethereum's 43-day staking queue is a mechanics story, not a demand signal, Sygnum warns.
- Ondo Finance is eyeing an acquisition worth up to $500 million.
- Aave proposes cutting six low-revenue chain deployments and 75 individual reserves.
- BIS pilots tokenised money for cross-border payments with global bank participation.
- Luno cuts a fifth of its global headcount, citing automation and a retail trading slump.
- Ethereum Foundation adds pcaversaccio as its fourth board member.
- Tether's GENIUS-compliant USAT stablecoin expands to Celo.
- Ionic Digital, the mining company that emerged from Celsius's bankruptcy, surges 26% on Nasdaq debut.
- BNY targets the $8.6 trillion transfer agency market using blockchain settlement rails.
- Morgan Stanley debuts ETH and SOL ETPs with staking and the market's lowest fee.
- Ondo scraps public blockchain plans in favour of private high-speed trading network.
- Core Scientific pairs with AMD in a multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure deal.
- European banks launch RL1 as a regulated shared blockchain layer.
- Strategy skips bitcoin for a fifth consecutive week while building its cash war chest.
- Circle acquires IBM's entire blockchain patent estate, becoming the largest US holder in the category.
- Lido begins a major validator consolidation, shuffling $16.5 billion in staked ETH.
- Storj files for Chapter 11 as crypto's shutdown wave claims another name.
- BitMart is shutting down and its global CEO was not told.
- South Korean trading firm tokenises receivables with LG CNS.
- Sberbank building crypto trading infrastructure for a December launch.
- MiCA compliance pressure may force European crypto consolidation.
- BitMEX will cease operations on 23 September, ending an 11-year run.
- Sberbank targets a December launch for crypto trading infrastructure.
- Robinhood in talks to integrate Crypto.com prediction markets.
- Poolin files Chapter 11 with $173M in claims and a $52M stalking-horse bid for its Texas rigs.
- World Foundation raises $52.5M in a locked WLD token sale to scale its proof-of-human network.
- BitMEX and its co-founders face a proposed class action over an alleged insider trading desk and deliberate server outages.
- Odos Protocol announces it will shut down on 30 July, giving users one week to withdraw.
- BitMEX sets September 23 as its permanent shutdown date, 11 years after Arthur Hayes co-founded the exchange.
- BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy anchor a nine-firm Bitcoin Security Consortium pledging $15 million for post-quantum cryptography research.
- Coinbase declares AI agent payments its 'most high-conviction bet' and opens the product to business customers.
- Mirae Asset completes its acquisition of Korbit, South Korea's oldest crypto exchange.
- Midnight token rebounded 19% after the Wanchain bridge hack, with Hoskinson calling for a ZK overhaul.
- Revolut reached a $115B valuation in an employee secondary sale.
- Coinbase is building an 'Everything Exchange' for Canada, adding stocks and prediction markets.
- HTX is rotating hot wallets across chains to evade UK sanctions screening, per TRM Labs.
- Movement Labs files Chapter 11 with liabilities up to $10 million.
- Jack Mallers exits Twenty One Capital as the Tether three-way merger collapses.
- Augustus closes $180 million Series B to build a stablecoin-native clearing bank.
- Telegram plans a non-custodial wallet rollout for its entire billion-plus user base.
- Hyperliquid's HIP-4 opens prediction markets to permissionless deployment, at a price.
- Cardano's Van Rossum hard fork goes live as the first community-voted protocol upgrade.
- Exodus cuts a quarter of its workforce and pivots hard toward stablecoins.
- Grayscale files for a Worldcoin ETF, bringing iris-scan tokenomics to Wall Street.
- Saylor publishes a 110-point broadside against BIP-110 as the August activation window nears.
- USDT faces a structural clock: two years to compliance or delisting from US platforms.
- Japanese logistics firm trials JPYC stablecoin payments to attract contractors in a tight labour market.
- Aurora mainnet went dark and has stayed that way, with no explanation offered.
- Uniswap governance votes on v4 fee routing and Robinhood Chain deployment.
- Bitcoin Japan plans a $60 million raise to actually buy Bitcoin for the first time.
- Bitcoin's DOG Mode surfaces the protocol's next governance fracture.
- Dollar stablecoins are quietly displacing Brazil's domestic payment rails.
- Citadel Securities takes a $400 million stake in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation.
- SBI Holdings closes its majority acquisition of Singapore's Coinhako.
- Cardano hands core infrastructure to external development teams.
- Grayscale restructures its Solana staking ETF to pay quarterly cash distributions.
- Citadel Securities leads $400M round into Crypto.com at $20B valuation.
- T. Rowe Price launches first actively managed multi-token crypto ETF.
- Visa launches stablecoin platform backed by Open USD.
- Polygon Labs cuts headcount for the second time in 2026.
- DTCC moves tokenised stocks and Treasuries into live production.
- Stripe tables a $53B bid for PayPal.
- Aave V4 debuts on Avalanche with RWA lending in its sights.
- Jesse Pollak hands Base App to Cobie after conceding the social strategy failed.
- Wall Street cuts Circle targets, citing Hyperliquid and Open USD as structural threats to USDC.
- Velocity raises $38M Series A to wire stablecoins into corporate banking rails.
- CleanSpark signs a $6.6 billion, 20-year data centre lease with an undisclosed global tech tenant.
- Ethereum Foundation's privacy team spins out as for-profit EthSystems to sell confidentiality tooling to banks.
- Robinhood Chain clears $3 billion in weekly DEX volume and cracks the top five chains, but memecoins are the actual driver.
- UK government launches a tokenisation taskforce with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley.
- SBI Holdings pivots its blockchain unit to Solana, rebranding to SBI Solana Global.
- Binance.US CEO outlines a rebuild plan targeting 20% of US market share.
- BIP 110 fork deadline is approaching with no miner signalling support.
- Japan's SBI Holdings is systematically expanding its crypto footprint.
- Lawson convenience stores are piloting yen-pegged stablecoin payments in Japan.
- Solana logged 10.1 billion transactions in Q1 2026 and is adding 8.4 million new addresses weekly.
- Robinhood Chain goes live as an Arbitrum-based L2 for tokenised equities.
- BNB Agent Studio integrates with AWS Bedrock AgentCore for persistent AI agents.
- Ripple CEO says the company nearly collapsed under SEC pressure.
- SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq debut gets a tokenised shadow listing on Solana.
- Kraken is relaunching its mobile app around agentic AI trading.
- Hyundai goes live with internal stablecoin transfers, becoming the first major South Korean conglomerate to do so.
- Cambridge research flags Ethereum's jurisdictional concentration risk: 31% of node activity sits in the US.
- Gauntlet closes $125M Series C with SBI Holdings as sole backer.
- Sony Bank gets conditional OCC approval for a dollar stablecoin trust.
- MARA gains 14% after announcing a 2GW Texas campus deal.
- Over $7.2B migrates from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP as Mantle joins.
- Paradigm closes a $1.2B fourth fund, roughly half earmarked for AI and robotics.
- BNB Chain announces a new L1 built specifically for agentic and high-frequency trading.
- Bitmine adds $70M of ETH to treasury, bringing holdings to roughly 4.8% of circulating supply.
- DeFi dashboard Zapper is shutting down after seven years.
- EDX Markets closes $76M Series C with SBI Holdings as sole backer.
- Coinbase wins UK licence to offer derivatives and equities alongside crypto.
- Kraken wins $22M arbitration against Mazars over abandoned audit.
- Ondo Finance enables tokenised stocks as perpetual trading collateral.
- Vitalik Buterin calls for Ethereum's most ambitious rebuild since the Merge.
- USDC is outpacing Tether on transaction volume, per Visa data.
- Bitmine's treasury now holds over 5.7 million ETH after a fresh $74 million purchase.
- Securitize is hunting acquisitions with a $400 million post-IPO war chest.
- Strategy quietly kills its 'never sell' Bitcoin stance.
- Aave's Monad deployment hits $100 million in two days.
- Aptos patches a critical Move VM vulnerability that was cheap to trigger.
- Trump memecoin holders are collectively down $3.8 billion.
- Securitize tokenises $295 million in stock on Solana at IPO.
- Spotify pulls its branding from Kalshi and Polymarket after a rigged music bet.
- OUSD stablecoin consortium lists Samsung and Dunamu without their knowledge.
- MiCA's first post-deadline register adds 37 firms including Standard Chartered.
- Securitize lists on NYSE and simultaneously tokenises its own shares on-chain.
- Ondo Finance tokenises BlackRock's IVV ETF and Micron shares under an SEC-shaped custodial model.
- eToro leads a $12.5 million seed into onchain perps platform Extended.
- Solana launches on-chain governance gated at 100,000 SOL staked.
- Robinhood Chain opens its public mainnet with tokenised stocks, perps and agentic trading ambitions.
- Ethereum Institutional launches as a nonprofit bridge between the protocol and Wall Street.
- Venice AI closes a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation.
- Forward Industries extends its lead as the largest public Solana treasury, adding 500,000 SOL.
- Open USD launches with over 100 backers, Circle takes the hit.
- MetaMask Money Account launches on Monad with up to 4% APY.
- New York Life's $800 billion asset manager enters tokenized credit.
- Phantom hires Hyperliquid market-builders to push into perps.
- BlackRock's Aladdin platform deepens Ethena integration, lifting ENA 8%.
- BNY gains mint-and-burn capability for USDC, broadening custodian stablecoin reach.
- Securitize clears shareholder vote, NYSE debut set for Thursday.
- Loopring shuts its zkRollup DEX after failing to attract meaningful volume.
- Kiwoom Securities pursues a stake in Bithumb.
- SBI's $289 million Bitbank acquisition signals broader Japanese exchange consolidation.
- American Express hires a dedicated VP for stablecoin and blockchain partnerships.
- Crypto VCs are formally expanding mandates beyond the sector.
- Coinbase and OKX are actively recruiting Binance's EU client base following Binance's MiCA licence failure.
- Tether is deploying its $23 billion gold reserve as collateral for bullion-backed loans.
- Stablecoin usage is concentrated in emerging markets, but the founders and venture money remain clustered in the US and Europe.
- Securitize targets early July NYSE debut with a $400 million SPAC raise.
- Framework Ventures closes $400 million fourth fund spanning crypto, AI and robotics.
- SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Japanese exchange Bitbank for $289 million.
- BitGo cuts 15% of staff as it pivots toward stablecoins and AI infrastructure.
- Kraken reported in talks to buy 15% of Aave, founder pushes back hard.
- Invesco files to bring a tokenised money-market fund into the stablecoin reserve stack.
- Spark seeds a stablecoin FX layer on Uniswap v4 with $150 million.
- BitGo cuts 15% of staff and pivots toward AI infrastructure and stablecoins.
- Kalshi seeks a $40 billion valuation, sues Illinois, and posts record open interest.
- Binance drops its Greek MiCA application with one week to the deadline.
- Abracadabra in emergency mode as MIM loses its dollar peg.
- Pump.fun advertises a chief legal officer role paying up to $5 million.
- Ethereum Foundation cuts a fifth of its workforce and 40% of its overall budget.
- Franklin Templeton closes its 250 Digital acquisition and creates a dedicated crypto division.
- THORChain resumes full operations more than a month after a $10.7 million exploit.
- Nouriel Roubini puts his Technodollar product on-chain.
- ICE and OKX form a joint venture to pipe tokenised equities into crypto markets.
- Bitmine adds $92 million in ETH, pushing toward 5% of circulating supply.
- Tokenised RWA market cap clears $51 billion, equity tokenisation up 130% — and the patent wars have started.
- Fomo trading app raises $75 million at a $550 million valuation.
- Polymarket paid influencers to stage fabricated winning bets on dummy prediction sites.
- CME's legal push to classify perps as swaps moves to the next stage.
- Andre Cronje and two co-directors step down from the Sonic Labs board.
- MiCA 2.0 consultation opens with stablecoins and DeFi as the central targets.
- Japan's Prime Minister frames Bitcoin as a generational economic opportunity.
- Pump.fun launches a bounty platform with extreme real-world tasks.
- Franklin Templeton files dividend-to-bitcoin ETFs.
- Base sets 25 June for its Beryl upgrade.
- Ethereum faces a potential core development funding gap.
- Igloo building a path for crypto tokens to list on NYSE as registered securities.
- Ethereum Foundation loses its co-executive director.
- Morgan Stanley files amended ETH and SOL ETF disclosures with the lowest fees in the market.
- Fidelity launches a GENIUS Act-aligned money market fund for stablecoin reserve assets.
- Kraken integrates Solana DEX trading directly into its core app.
- Trace Finance closes a $32 million Series A for stablecoin payments infrastructure.
- Fidelity moves into stablecoin reserve management, joining a crowding trade.
- Satori Finance shuts down, another perps DEX fails to outlast the bear.
- Tether quietly winds down Alloy and the gold-backed aUSDT product.
- Coinbase pitches itself as the everything exchange with tokenised stocks, options, and an AI advisor.
- Robinhood cuts 10 percent of staff as crypto revenue cools.
- Ripple buys into Flutterwave's $3.2 billion Series E to push RLUSD across Africa.
- World Liberty Financial is close to an OCC federal trust charter for USD1.
- Bitmine adds $136M in ETH to push holdings past 5.6 million tokens.
- Standard Chartered initiates on UNI with a $100 price target by 2030.
- Spot HYPE ETFs approach $900M in cumulative volume within days of launch.
- Paradigm leads a $9M seed into Latin American stablecoin payments app El Dorado.
- Mining difficulty drops 10%, the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026.
- Aerodrome retools its liquidity layer into a prediction market.
- World Liberty Financial puts USD1 inside the UFC Octagon at a White House event.
- Crypto funds disagree on whether the Bitcoin bottom is in.
- White House gives Anthropic 90 minutes to pull Claude Fable and Mythos models.
- Morpho closes $175 million round as onchain credit becomes the VC consensus trade.
- Zcash gets a clean bill of health from Anthropic's Mythos audit.
- Wall Street is moving Ethereum from pilot to production, says Etherealize.
- BlackRock's yield-bearing bitcoin ETF files 8-A, launch pencilled in for next week.
- Exodus and Ondo put 200-plus tokenised stocks and ETFs on Solana.
- Ethena Labs commits $250 million to Securitize's tokenised AAA CLO fund on Solana.
- Metaplanet acquires Japanese securities firm Siiibo for $13 million.
- Digital Asset raises $355M from a16z to scale the Canton Network.
- Coinbase launches dedicated accounts for AI agents to trade and pay autonomously.
- Tether leads a $1.4B round into German humanoid robotics firm Neura.
- Citi begins offering tokenised private-company shares to wealthy and institutional clients.
- Tether leads a $1.4 billion round into humanoid robotics.
- Mastercard launches Agent Pay to let autonomous AI settle transactions.
- Botanix shuts its Bitcoin layer-2 after four years.
- Japan's three megabanks target a joint stablecoin by March 2027.
- Morpho raises $175M from Paradigm, a16z, and Ribbit to build an open credit network.
- Janus Henderson takes an ENA position and eyes Ethena-linked investment products.
- Circle launches cirBTC on Ethereum to compete with Coinbase's cbBTC.
- Aave proposes a new risk framework in the wake of the KelpDAO exploit.
- Tokenized equities cross $5.5 billion as Bybit lists SpaceX IPO access.
- Bitmine put $207 million into Ethereum at the lows.
- MetaMask shipped a self-custodial wallet built for AI agents.
- Aave's founder defended the protocol after an $8.45 billion deposit run.
- JPMorgan says Strategy needs to rebuild dollar reserves, cuts Clarity Act odds below 50%.
- Saylor posts 'add more dots' hint as Strategy trades $11.7B underwater.
- Bybit lists tokenised SpaceX IPO shares via Kraken's xStocks infrastructure.
- HTX suspends WLFI and USD1 trading, force-converts user balances to USDT.
- America's largest banks are jointly building a digital currency network to halt deposit outflows to crypto and money-market alternatives.
- HTX to delist USD1 after World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked addresses citing UK sanctions.
- Meta is paying creators in stablecoins, but the off-ramp problem is squarely the recipient's.
- Hyperion DeFi unwinds $29 million in HYPE positions as its USDH stablecoin winds down.
- Securitize clears its SEC registration statement, opening the path to NYSE listing.
- BitMine prices preferred shares with a 9.5% dividend in an upsized offering.
- Visa and Brale are exploring private stablecoin settlement via SBC on the Canton Network.
- Crypto Council for Innovation launches a vault-focused regulatory coalition.
- JPMorgan, BofA and Citi form a consortium to launch a tokenised deposit network by early 2027.
- Coinbase closes the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using Bitcoin as collateral.
- Radiant Capital winds down after failing to recover from its 2024 hack.
- Mastercard deepens stablecoin settlement coverage via USDC and RLUSD.